
Rebecca Saxe
In healthy human adults, cortical representations of the visual world are spatially and functionally organized at multiple scales. High level, behaviourally relevant categories (e.g. faces, scenes) elicit systematic responses across wide regions of cortex. While the adult state has been described in detail, the developmental process that creates these cortical representations remains deeply mysterious, and highly theoretically contentious. I will describe the first results of fMRI experiments with awake human infants, revealing both the continuities and differences in cortical function.